Formulating a More Comprehensive Stroke-Risk Evaluation Scale

Towards More Comprehensive Evaluation in Anaphora Resolution

Biomedical and psychological risk in cardiac surgery: is EuroSCORE a more comprehensive risk measure than Stroke Index?

OBJECTIVE Several composite risk score indices, the most common being the Stroke Index and the European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE), have been developed to predict perioperative events such as cerebrovascular accidents or death. The main aim of the present study was to compare the preoperative associations between the Stroke Index or the EuroSCORE with anxiety, depr...

Comprehensive Evaluation of Using Solar Water Heater on a Household Scale in Canada

Canadian researchers are now trying to exploit much more energy from solar sources, hydropower, wind, and biomass. Given the fact that reducing the carbon pollutant level is a political priority in Canada, this paper studies the feasibility of providing sanitary hot water and space heating demands of a four-member family in 10 provinces in this country. The feasibility analysis was performed by...

Evaluation of Homocysteine Level as a Risk Factor among Patients with Ischemic Stroke and Its Subtypes

Background: Epidemiological research has shown that increased total homocysteine (tHcy) levels are associated with an increased risk of thromboembolic disease; however, controversy still exists over which subtype of stroke is allied to hyperhomocysteinemia. This study aimed to investigate whether elevated tHcy is an independent risk factor for ischemic stroke and to compare tHcy levels in patie...

Toward More Comprehensive and Multi-modal Transport Evaluation

This report critically evaluates transport policy and project evaluation practices, and describes ways to make them more comprehensive and multi-modal. The conventional transport planning paradigm is mobility-based, it assumes that the planning objective is to maximize travel speed and distance, and evaluates transport system performance based primarily on automobile travel conditions. A new pa...